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Toirettsu, SEGA's Bathroom-Based Gaming Interface There was a time when you had to go down to the arcade or pizza shop and pump quarters into machines if you wanted to enjoy a video game experience. Then computers and home gaming consoles brought video game entertainment into our living rooms. Now Sega is cornering the niche bathroom gaming market with a gaming interface named “Toirettsu” in which the user controls the game by peeing on sensors in a urinal. If you can’t go standing up, perhaps Toirettsu isn’t for you (sorry ladies, but your hands-free method allows you to play Angry...

Sun Feb 13, 3:56 PM ET Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), D-N.Y., displays the German Media Prize she was awarded in Baden-Baden, southern Germany, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005. (AP Photo/Winfried Rothermel)

Many commentators have noted that the war on terrorism will require a battle for the "hearts and minds" of the world's Muslim radicals. We agree. But it's also true that, when all else fails, some of the more incorrigible hearts and minds need to be atomized. That's where the U.S. Predator unmanned drone comes in. In northwest Yemen on Sunday, a certain Qaed Salim Sunian al-Harethi was travelling by car with five other notables when a Hellfire missile, released by a Predator soundlessly lurking at high altitude, hit his vehicle. Car and occupants were destroyed. But Mr. al-Harethi will not...

Some folks think that because I drive a little 4WD vehicle I do not care about good transportation. That is not exactly true, of course. Within the past couple weeks, I have ridden in two greatly different styled electric vehicles. However, I was also in an older GTO and a Plymouth Roadrunner -- both muscle-cars with four on the floor and duel quads. Fact is, I grew up drag racing. Today, I am more interested in other things. For instance, a couple years ago I reported a little about my visit with a Jeep Commander all electric fuel cell vehicle.(1)...